January 30, 2005, Sunday

In his Saturday radio address, George Bush described Iraqi insurgents as a ''small faction.'' Meanwhile, people actually on the scene described a rebellion with widespread support. Isn't it amazing? A year after the occupation of Iraq began, Mr....

April 13, 2004, Tuesday

By JIM RUTENBERG; Reporting for this article was contributed by Jacques Steinberg and David Carr in New York and Thom Shanker in Washington

The announcement of Saddam Hussein's capture followed a careful plan devised over months and intended, according to those who worked on it, to dispel any doubt among Iraqis and a skeptical Arab world that he was in American hands. Code-named HVT...

December 15, 2003, Monday

It was Saddam Hussein's last weapons deal and it did not go exactly as he and his generals had imagined. For two years before the American invasion of Iraq, Mr. Hussein's sons, generals and front companies were engaged in lengthy negotiations...

December 1, 2003, Monday

October 15, 2003, Wednesday

The persistence of a quotation he insists is an ''urban legend'' is evidently infuriating Howard Dean. At lunch last week in the Washington bureau of The Times, the reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg identified herself and started to ask a question....

October 13, 2003, Monday

When Ahmed al-Samarrai returned to the sports club where he once coached Iraq's national basketball team, he did not recognize it. The gym had been demolished. The grass on the soccer field was uncut, and some of the sandstone buildings were...

August 17, 2003, Sunday

The brothers Hussein were buried today here in their hometown 11 days after they were killed by American soldiers. The funeral touched off an outpouring of nostalgia for their fugitive father and was filled with angry calls to rid Iraq of its...